Learn Romanian with Nico - Everyday Dialogues: Lesson 1 

Bless you for your hard work and enthusiasm, Nico! You really are an amazing and creative teacher, and I've learned SO MUCH from you! Thank you♡

Nico thanks for explaining all the recent reuploads I knew I had seen these vids before so I was wondering what was going on.

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Hallo lieber Nico, Thank you so much for doing a great job in the promotion of your lovely language and culture. Please, keep up the good work. Congratulations! I was wondering if you could consider keeping the complete collection of videos up and replace them slowly as you can. I find that even if they contain flaws, they are of invaluable benefit (at least from a phonetic perspective). Anyway, it is just s suggestion. Thanks from Canada.

Bună, vreau să vorbesc fluent limba română pentru că am nevoie de o muncă necesară în domeniul turismului. Vizibil / Am tradus aceste cuvinte de pe Google

I agree!!!!!

Awww! Thank you guys so much for supporting my project. It means the world to me! 🤗

Inițiativa ta este foarte frumoasă și umană, Nico. Iti doresc fericire in proiectul tau!

There are simply not a lot of people who speak it. Many languages are underrated

Bune seuia maijuneskumijonesku

Underrated language?

@@fallenangel9716 it's spoken by 34 million people lmao

@@szecr Spanish (The most spoken romanian sister language) is spoken by 450 million. Literally 10 times more people. Yes Romanian IS underrated. And that's really sad. Is a beautiful language

I agree. I have the book and these Everyday Dialogue videos are invaluable. Thank you to Nico for all the hard work.

Hi! I think this is a very useful activity for keeping your mind sharp, as you said)) I'm glad to help you with your Romanian language if you want. I'm a native speaker, and I really would like to teach it. So just give me your instagram (mine is @pavel.moraru2) or reply me to this comment with a way we can get in touch.

I am not Romanian but I am trying to grasp the basics of it. I am Italian by birth and , as far as I can see, I do not find Romanian so difficult because it is a latin language. Some vowels sound like those we can find in Portuguese and in some dialects of South West Lombardy, which is a region in Northern Italy and I live in South West Lombardy. Moreover I am a polyglot and I can speak Russian as well. 10% of Romanian words are of slavic origins. All in all, it's a very good channel from which I can learn the basics of Romanian.

Me too😂I am just looking for this kind of videos to see if people are interested in our language.I am actually surprised to see how many people want to learn Romanian.It makes me really happy

@@anku7706 hi! I am from Mexico, and i Love your language, It Is beautiful!

@@karinacorona5850 Awww thank you,I'm so glad you like it!💕

I have been bucharest recently i can say i love the language the way it sounds . I am defiantly interested in learning it

No one knows we are latins..😔

@@mariusstefan7214 Yeah, Romanians need to have a national campaign to start saying “Si” instead of “Da” lol

@@vikingsailorboy a new theory of the word “da” say that may come from latin “ita” = that’s wright. Nobody knows for sure that we borrowed “da” from slavic languages, but still we have almost 70% latin words so I don’t think we are slavic for say “da”

@@mariusstefan7214 ehh “da” is Slavic man. And that’s ok! It was simply adopted by Romanians because all the neighbors say “da” and that makes it easier for historical trade. Romanian is overwhelmingly Latin, but as you know has Slavic borrowings - like Portuguese/Spanish with Arabic, and French with Celtic and Germanic. Unfortunately when foreigners hear the simple and common word “da”, they default to assuming it’s a Slavic language. Do you think it would be weird or very unnatural for Romanians to start voluntarily saying the word “si” for yes?

Que interessante, também são brasileiro. Pq esta aprendendo romeno?

i'am really happy to hear that you like my country😄

How is it going?

sim, é muito parecido com italiano, estou chocada, eu não sabia disso. O legal é que as línguas românicas tem um link entre si, como falamos português podemos aprender mais tranquilamente o espanhol, o italiano e o romeno(que é uma surpresa pra mim), já o frânces eu acho um pouco mais difícil.

Same. I just haven’t spoken it in such a long time lol. Its nice to have a refresher!

Hi! I'm glad to help you with your Romanian language if you want. I'm a native speaker, and I really would like to teach it. So just give me your instagram (mine is @pavel.moraru2) or reply me to this comment with a way we can get in touch.

"cel", "cea", "cei", "cele" are often used before adjectives (or attributes in general) to help distinguish the determined nouns from other similar objects/persons: for example, here, it's the NEW neighbour we're talking about and not some other random neighbour, so, "cel" simply makes everything sound more specific by stressing the fact that the neighbour is new. Of course, you can just leave it out and the meaning of the entire structure won't be affected that much, but I felt it sounded more natural if I used it and so I did. 😉

@@LearnRomanianwithNico Ce onorat sunt de a primi un răspuns de la tine, Nico! Am înțeles explicația, mulțumesc frumos!

@@LearnRomanianwithNicoI'm a romanian, and i can tell you I find it more natural to say "cel" like in the sentence

Hi! I want to tell you that you that you'll find it very appealing and captivating. I'm glad to help you with your Romanian language if you want. I'm a native speaker, and I really would like to teach it. So just give me your instagram (mine is @pavel.moraru2) or reply me to this comment with a way we can get in touch.

@@pavel3045 Hi, that would be really lovely ! I'm gonna add you on instagram if you don't mind ^^

That’s sooooo true I see a mix of everything 😭😭😭

Ela é romena oras

A big heartfelt thank you, @laurencedeschoulepnikoff7265, for the super thanks! Every bit of support means the world to me and I'm so grateful to have viewers like you who appreciate my work here. ♥

Dude, you can always pause the video to read the subtitles and rewatch it as many times as you need. Sheesh...

Try changing the speed in settings to 0.75

Can you please tell me on what evidence is your statement based? The verb „a suna” can be used in a figurative sense to describe how something sounds to someone and „a (nu) suna bine” or „a (nu) suna rău” are commonly used expressions in contemporary Romanian. I can’t really find anything that supports your claim, so, if you could please suggest me an article or a linguistic study, I would really love to read more about this topic. Thanks!

Hello, you gave the answer : contemporan Romanian. Unfortunately our language is invaded by all these anglicismes. I am Romanian and never heard in my town iași this expression "Suna bine" and never employed it when to accept an invitation. Yes I am agree with Suna bine exist as Romanian expression but not in this context. I give you an example : ideea pe care o ai suna bine dar ma gândesc dacă e fezabila. Otherwise : vrei o cafea? Suna bine. It's just nu Suna bine în Romanian...it do not represent Romanian language which you should teach to the strangers. I have 34 years and never used this expression and even if employed nowadays by teenagers it's because they read more in English that in Romanian and they translate they speak English translated with Romanian words. You know that often commun errors become normal things when accepted by all. Sorry if my comment is to heavy but I think we should promote to the world the original Romanian with its beautiful expressions and not the teenager jargon copied pasted from English. Lately I heard the word lokdown instead of carantina. What you will tell to you tube people? That lokdown is Contemporan Romanian... In reality is the lack of culture of teenager class which search foreign words to seem smarter and modern. Anyways I will never accept and invitation saying Suna bine cose I never heard it. I will say mi at face placere or just cu placere. This is a representative answer in Romanian. My opinion. I apologize if I ofensed you

Dear Nico, I searched on the internet examples with expression Suna bine in Romanian, I found a lot of it as you suggested but not a single one used to accept an invitation. If you find an example please issued from a reliable source please let me now

Sorry if I sounded offended - I'm most certainly not and I genuinely want to know if that expression is a semantic calque from English, because I've never heard that claim before. I've used it myself many times and it never sounded odd to me. Look, I understand where you're coming from and, believe me, I do try my best to promote academic standards, but, a language is a living organism that changes and evolves in time, as the needs and experiences of its speakers change. Many calques are so deeply rooted in our language that we don't even notice they weren't once "proper" Romanian expressions. It's inevitable. I normally try to avoid such delicate aspects, because scholars seem to have differing views on these topics and it's hard to find academic evidence to support anything. Since I'm going to reupload the revised edition of this series soon, I'll take your suggestion into consideration and avoid using that expression. Thank you for your contribution.

Dear Nico, you re totally right, a language is always evoluting. Maybe it's me who I m a little bit frustrated that our national language is changing too fast since the revolution and not in its own way (based on its roots) but in an inspired way. You re right we can't stop the future, the evolution. And here in North East of Romania we are a little bit more conservative that the south and west much more opened to the occidental and modern trends. For example when I hear the neologism "after school" I am just scared, I wondering why we weren't able to find a word inspired from our historical roots. No need to change the video, thank you for this debate and thank you a lot for understand my idea. And thanks for your lessons I subscribed to your channel. Cu multa stima,

Renata Silva no. It has nothing similar to russian. More similar to latin. Latein.

Jos rău

Just rewind

I had no problem following it..